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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An engine whose crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down in a cylinder.

Wiktionary

  1. n. piston engine

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction in a circular path.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an internal-combustion engine in which the crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down in cylinders

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  1. piston engine

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  1. internal-combustion engine
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  1. recipro-unit
  2. crank
  3. piston-motor
  4. rotary engine
  5. Wankel engine
  1. wankel rotary engine
  2. epitrochoidal engine
  3. condenser
  4. scoggan
  5. reciprocator
  1. slide-bar
  2. upstroke
  3. piston-valve
  4. pump-bob
  5. crankcase
  1. crosshead
  2. piston
  3. flywheel
  4. cylinder
  5. cylinder head
  1. rotative engine
  2. single-acting
  3. stroke
  4. sun and planet wheels
  5. beam
  1. turbo-air-compressor

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